Changing businesses with their own profit and loss responsibilities, even within a big company is like joining a new company by itself.
I have heard about the nightmarish stories of people changing the org, at leadership levels, and within weeks realizing, they do not fit in at all.
Most of that time, that "fit in" is just acceptability by the existing team to the incoming leader. Especially when they see it as being "planted" by someone else even further up in the organization.
And being "planted" in these cases, is a universal strategy, often just influenced by level of comfort and creating an ecosystem which is very much against the change every one seeking in terms of new challenge. Its hypocrisy in a way. We like to talk about "change" but then we seek the "old" comfort in the new place.
And this acceptability is very annoying at ground level. For example, one complete morning I was in my new office, my calendar is full with appointments, but NO ONE showing up - every one giving some silly excuse 5 mins in to the meeting. Basically, no one really wants to meet and take it forward.
In a team outing, in the bus en-route to destination, the seat next to me remained open ! No one took it. Any sports or discussion I tried to join, it dispersed in moments !
Its a very different feeling, as it has always been the reverse so far .. The "fitting in" is - to a large extend is "being accepted".
I have heard about the nightmarish stories of people changing the org, at leadership levels, and within weeks realizing, they do not fit in at all.
Most of that time, that "fit in" is just acceptability by the existing team to the incoming leader. Especially when they see it as being "planted" by someone else even further up in the organization.
And being "planted" in these cases, is a universal strategy, often just influenced by level of comfort and creating an ecosystem which is very much against the change every one seeking in terms of new challenge. Its hypocrisy in a way. We like to talk about "change" but then we seek the "old" comfort in the new place.
And this acceptability is very annoying at ground level. For example, one complete morning I was in my new office, my calendar is full with appointments, but NO ONE showing up - every one giving some silly excuse 5 mins in to the meeting. Basically, no one really wants to meet and take it forward.
In a team outing, in the bus en-route to destination, the seat next to me remained open ! No one took it. Any sports or discussion I tried to join, it dispersed in moments !
Its a very different feeling, as it has always been the reverse so far .. The "fitting in" is - to a large extend is "being accepted".
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True that!
But as we know Change is the only constant. One has to accept that first. If everyone gets it, the Acceptance / fit-in would be smoother I guess! :-)
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